CSV injection in Liferay Enterprise Portal - #VU13839

 

CSV injection in Liferay Enterprise Portal - #VU13839

Published: July 12, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13839
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Liferay
Affected software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions.

The weakness exists due to CSV injection. A remote attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted CSV file with a spreadsheet program (e.g., Microsoft Excel, LibreOffice Calc, Google Sheets) and bypass security restrictions.

Remediation

Update to version 7.1 or later.

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